Shots Fired: A Machinist Guide

[MelvinK]

Although i dont have a lvl60 MCN, i can tell from the abilities and rotation that MCN gain significant dps from wildfire/cooldowns stacking. The shorter the fight is, the more dominant is this "opening" dps. So I'd say the DPS is sort of "inflated". I'd actually be more interested with average DPS past 6-10 min to reflect a proper raid encounter length.

[SasakiNori]

Although i dont have a lvl60 MCN, i can tell from the abilities and rotation that MCN gain significant dps from wildfire/cooldowns stacking. The shorter the fight is, the more dominant is this "opening" dps. So I'd say the DPS is sort of "inflated". I'd actually be more interested with average DPS past 6-10 min to reflect a proper raid encounter length.

Bard works the same way though.


I'd be curious to see how much of a % loss it is if you have your turret sing in comparision to bards -15% on songs.

[Blacksyd]

I've load some parse with the hypercharge rotation, the DPS loss seems to be a bit higher (~17%), and don't forget that the bard have the FOE with no DPS loss and up DPS of mage/sumn/...

Also i've some things that bother me "again". The first one is "what type of damage we do" ? And the second one is on the opener you use ricochet, i've hear that ricochet is on one targe 400 potency i've not the skill yet so i don't know if it does 1 hit or 4 hit, if it's really that can it's be good to use reassemble on the ricochet ?

[HairyRoger]

I've load some parse with the hypercharge rotation, the DPS loss seems to be a bit higher (~17%), and don't forget that the bard have the FOE with no DPS loss and up DPS of mage/sumn/...

Also i've some things that bother me "again". The first one is "what type of damage we do" ? And the second one is on the opener you use ricochet, i've hear that ricochet is on one targe 400 potency i've not the skill yet so i don't know if it does 1 hit or 4 hit, if it's really that can it's be good to use reassemble on the ricochet ?

Our damage type is piercing. Ricochet hits twice, once for 100 potency and then a second time for 300, split on targets. If one target, it hits twice for 100 + 300 on the target. Reassemble will not work due to the skill not being a weapon skill. Hope it helps

[SasakiNori]

Our damage type is piercing. Ricochet hits twice, once for 100 potency and then a second time for 300, split on targets. If one target, it hits twice for 100 + 300 on the target. Reassemble will not work due to the skill not being a weapon skill. Hope it helps

Do both hits crit together or individually? (Natural crits)

[HairyRoger]

Do both hits crit together or individually? (Natural crits)

Individually, unfortunately. Feels good when you get the 300 potency crit though

[MiruWest]

The shorter the fight is, the more dominant is this "opening" dps. So I'd say the DPS is sort of "inflated". I'd actually be more interested with average DPS past 6-10 min to reflect a proper raid encounter length.

Same could be said about any job. Its the reason everyone uses 3:00 - 3:30 min to parse. A 6-10 min parse wouldn't make sense because you would go TP starved. Not to mention you want a raid parse which would mean raid buffs and DRG debuff along with TRK Atk? Not gonna happen sorry.

I posted on reddit my parse so folks could get a idea of what we got going for us. Both was done with a GB and Only GB in the opener using the rotations talked about here. Ill said it once and Ill say it again, This class revolves around RNG. No other jobs PURE damage is from RNG. Yes we have Reload but thats once a min. Image how crappy SMN damage would be if the only thing they had to use after aether flow was Ruin I lol.